Regarding the boot animation, without root access I don't think you would be able to delete it anyway. You may even need S-Off to do it but I can't be fully sure of that.

If I was you I wouldn't go deleting anything in the root folders, it's probably not gonna be healthy for your phone.

Unsure why you seem to be having Bluetooth problems tbh, maybe someone will be able to pipe up about that

I've just had a go at adding bookmarks to my homepage and both of them used the websites name (Google and another forum I use). Although I couldn't figure out a way to edit the name of the icon.

 

Found one way for you to have custom Internet icons but gotta jump through a few hoops.

Find your Web page and add it as a bookmark.
Download Desktop Visualiser from the app store.
Add a widget, choose the Desktop Visualiser 1x1 widget.
Click on the icon which with take you to the options. The top option allows you to add a picture, icon, whatever you wish.
The next box allows you to choose your action. Click on it and click others, bookmarks should then be there and choose your book mark.
Once that is done choose the name you would like and add colour or highlights when it's pressed :thumb:

 

You could just transfer images from your PC over to your phone. I allows you to save images from your gallery as an icon

 

Tbh I'm not very good at explaining it myself. If you do go down that route then best reading up on unlocking the bootloader, rooting and S-Off. All are different to each other and when they are all at your desired state (unlocked, rooted and off) then it opens a whole world of customising and control :thumb:

Again I'm not perfect for this as I use Bluetooth in my car and turn the Bluetooth on and off as I need it. I find some apps continue playing playing after I've turned my car off and some don't, so it could be in the coding of the app itself.

Yeah it's definitely the title of it. Without installing another launcher or using method I described then I don't think there's away of changing the icon name.

 

Honestly can't help you on that one sorry as I don't use outlook or any sort of tasks management. Sorry

 

Hi, on my M7, using the stock browser, if I first of all save it to bookmarks I get the option to rename, then go into bookmarks and longpressing the renamed bookmark gives an option to 'add shortcut to home'.

 

I understand your concerns about syncing Outlook to the phone. When I first came to Android I felt the same thing. But, I came to realize that Google produced Android and designed it to work with their existing products. I tried several methods to sync but finally arrived at the following method. It needs a bit of attention to set up but works like a charm. Perhaps you have a reason not to want to use google calendar but I recommend using it.

1) Set up a gmail account. You don't have to use it for mail. Then set up syncing with the phone and the google calendar. Once that works, then step 2:

2) Now you need to sync Outlook to google. I use a program called gSyncit.
Fieldston Software - gSyncit - Sync Outlook and Google Calendars, Contacts, Notes and Tasks. This takes a bit of setting up but works great to sync to google.

3) Finally & to resolve the task question, I use Business Calendar Pro on the phone. It will sync to the calendar on the phone and has an add on for tasks that can be set to sync to google tasks. There are other apps that will also do this.

Yes, this seems like a long way to go to just do a simple sync but I find it is the best method to get it done. And, syncing to google is yet another backup of your records if something happens to the phone or PC so there's an advantage there. And backup first!
Dave

 

I understand your trepidation. I feel the same way. But that's the way Android was designed to work. It does give you the freedom to work around most of Google, oft times via apps, but it takes work.

For example: Email. Use IMAP with other email providers. Use either the stock Email app (not Gmail, but Email), K-9 Mail, Blue Mail or whatever. Set Outlook up to use IMAP with the same service provider.

There are plenty of calendaring service providers, too. GoDaddy, for example, will sell you calendaring service for $10/year. $13/year for a group of five, $25/year for unlimited users. Add the CalDAV-Sync "conduit/connector" app to your Android device ($3) and Bob's your uncle. (I'm told MS Outlook can do DAViCal natively. I haven't tried it. I don't use MS anything.)

Contacts are a problem, tho. I don't know of a substitute contact server that you can use to keep Android devices and other things in-sync with one another.

In the end I decided to just compromise and give in to The Machine a bit. So Google "knows" all my contacts and my personal schedule? *shrug*

I do run my own mail server, and use Gmail only for app store related email. I don't use Google Drive, but Dropbox, instead. And even that doesn't get a copy of my encrypted digital keyring.

 

This is likely no help for you, but I have read the software that system runs has been problematical all along. That may be one reason for this: We Hear: Ford to Drop Microsoft for QNX on Future Versions of Sync

Contact your dealer and see if there's an update?

 

That's weird - I still get the favicon .

 

Yes, I do get the same thing on the odd bookmark/shortcut but the majority of mine are the full favicon shortcut. I assumed that was down to the favicon file info written in to the webpage by the page creator. I guess perhaps I've been lucky in that most of mine have the full favicon.

What I find frustrating is that there seems to be no consistency within or between different browsers in the way they handle the creation of bookmarks/shortcuts.